129:. He ruled himself until his death in 526, when Amalaric succeeded him. Theoderic's intervention is often credited with saving the Visigothic kingdom, but it ended the Balt dynasty.
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140:) and became state property after 531. The dynastic principle was abandoned and kings were chosen by election until the
136:) of the Balt kings, which had been a foundation of their legitimacy, was transformed into the royal treasury (
292:(University of California Press, 1979), pp. 32–34, has theories on family connections and Baltic connections.
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and lost most of their kingdom. In 511, the
Ostrogothic king
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